Re: graphic characters set

[dickey]

On Feb 25, 4:20 am, Antonio Macchi <antonio_mac...@alice.it> wrote:
> this command should starts the graphic character set (to create masks)
>
> $ tput smacs
>
> but, using aterm or Eterm, it does not work
>
> but it works using this form (lieing...)
>
> $ TERM=xterm tput smacs
>
> does anyone know where is the problem?

tput (and ncurses in general) is unrelated to bash.

As I suggested, the place to start is in the terminfo manpage,
where it describes line-drawing.  (Look in that manpage for
"alternate", "acs", etc).

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